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NetApp All-Flash FAS Built For Demands of the Enterprise
NetApp All-Flash FAS Built For Demands of the Enterprise by Weera Areeratanasak, Managing Director, NetApp Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand
Enterprises today strive for greater operational and cost efficiencies, reliability or flexibility in IT operations in order to gain greater customer satisfaction and achieve business success. To do so, they need to upgrade and improve the speed and responsiveness of their key business operations. In turn, IT decision makers need to decide how their operations can be improved with minimal cost and downtime, generating high returns on production at the same time.
With rapid technological advances setting new standards on operations, IT professionals have numerous options to gain a competitive advantage over their industry peers. An option comes in the form of all-flash arrays.
IT leaders recognize the benefits of all-flash arrays in delivering consistent, low-latency input/output (I/O) to critical workloads. As flash grows to become the industry gold standard and more forms of workloads run on all-flash storages, a solution is needed to deliver enterprise-grade data management capabilities for a shared environment.
However, not all all-flash array solutions offered in the industry are able to achieve robust data management, effective data protection, seamless scalability, and deep application integration and a critical eye is necessary when finding a solution that best fits the business needs.
Astute IT bosses focus on questions around all-flash storage solutions such as availability of data, flexibility of moving data across its lifecycle, data protection and whether the solution offers native support for cloud.
The Solution: Performance without compromise
Enterprises today require flexible, high-performance storage with strong data management support. All-flash arrays improve the efficiency, reliability and flexibility of IT operations. In this aspect, flash offerings can be very different across performance, storage efficiency, availability, and data management. In NetApp’s proposition, the management layer around the hardware is designed to accelerate, manage and protect critical business data.
NetApp’s All Flash FAS (AFF) systems address enterprise storage requirements with high performance, superior flexibility, and best-in-class data management. Built on ONTAP data management software, All Flash FAS systems speed up your business without compromising on the efficiency, reliability, or flexibility of your IT operations.
As an enterprise-grade all-flash array, it accelerates, manages, and protects your business-critical data, now and in the future, enabling an easy and smooth transition to flash for your datacentre.
Customer Success Story: Financial Services Firm Deploys NetApp All-Flash FAS for VDI
A large insurance and investment firm picked all-flash FAS for its Citrix VDI environment after an evaluation of major all-flash players. The IT team chose NetApp’s All-Flash FAS because of its proven performance combined with the integrated data management capabilities of clustered Data ONTAP, including NetApp SnapMirror for replication, and FlexClone® for low-overhead clones. The combination of these technologies also gives the company the ability to do non-disruptive DR testing.
What does this mean for your business?
Customer adoption cycle of flash have changed dramatically in the last year, from early adopters to mainstream as the price of SSDs steadily decreases. Focus now is on business value, improving customer experience and improving the economics for our classic buyer. The breadth of the NetApp portfolio, now including SolidFire, means that customers can move toward an all flash data center while still using what they’ve already deployed and leverage cloud; they are not faced with the trade-offs that other all-flash vendors create.
When it comes to enterprise disks, savings made on power consumption and datacentre footprint are critical as power consumption can make up a large portion of operational expenditure. The years spent with the actual product in datacentres gives an established player like NetApp real-world powered product development, which has led to the success of its flash arrays.
When considering a solution, it is important to partner a company built on many years of flash experience and innovation. One known to achieve high I/O at consistently low latency without compromising enterprise requirements for robust data management, complete data protection and the flexibility to change with the times and needs of the enterprise.
NetApp’s all-flash arrays are easily deployable with maximum flexibility to move data and applications wherever they run best. This can be done on an AFF system, commodity hardware with software-defined storage, or in the cloud. It offers the broadest application ecosystem integration for enterprise applications, VDI, database and server virtualisation. As enterprise requirements grow, IT managers can integrate flash into the infrastructure non-disruptively, scale-out and eliminate silos.
NetApp can help enterprises easily adopt flash, save time, and save money when doing so. New levels of simplicity and flexibility for SAN and NAS environments reduce implementation times to minutes, while building a foundation for Data Fabric with our enterprise grade capabilities. Now with the addition of a guaranteed efficiency reduction of 4:1 that combined with NetApp’s orderable 15TB SSDs give enterprises the perfect workload consolidation platform for all of their infrastructure needs.